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Sleeping Dogs' melee combat is a lot closer to the modern Batman games (and its rock-paper-scissors approach to strikes-parries-grabs) than to any 2D beat'em up title, let alone Double Dragon. And that comparison still ignores the entire gunfight and driving aspects of the gameplay.
Sleeping Dogs feels more like Yakuza with (bad) driving more serious side content than GTA with better fighting and cutscenes. You don't even get a car until your well into the game, whereas most GTA games start with a car chase or something. It's a very different feel. Saints Row is a GTA clone. Sleeping Dogs is at most inspired by it.
ADMIN MOD. Sleeping dogs, one of the best games ever in my opinion. I played Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition over the last few days and my conclusion is: It is one of the best games of all times I played, even if it has its flaws. First of all: The setting is fantastic and so intense. Hong Kong is where East and West meet, a place of cultural ...
- Even cops can have criminal fun in Hong Kong.
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By Colin Moriarty
Posted: Aug 14, 2012 7:01 am
Playing Sleeping Dogs kept me on the edge of my seat, but not for the reasons you might expect. Sure, Sleeping Dogs’ melee combat and gunplay provide plenty of thrills, the driving is extraordinarily fun in all of its arcadey glory, and there’s a whole lot to do in the version of Hong Kong Canadian developer United Front Games created. But at the end of my nearly 20-hour experience, none of that mattered to me as much as the story did. It’s that story, coupled with rock-solid mechanics and a task-heavy world that sets Sleeping Dogs apart from its competition.
See, Sleeping Dogs isn’t your typical Grand Theft Auto clone. Unlike recent titans of the genre -- Grand Theft Auto IV, Red Dead Redemption and Saints Row: The Third -- your character, Wei Shen, doesn’t have roguish, violent tendencies just because he’s a criminal looking to make a few bucks. Rather, Shen is a calculated and complicated figure, an undercover cop with plenty of experience in both the United States and Hong Kong who returns to his native land in order to help get the city’s thriving criminal enterprises under control. But as Shen gets sucked further and further into the Triad underworld he initially wants to unravel, his motives – and which side he’ll end up falling in line with – become increasingly blurred.
Sleeping Dogs’ blurred lines come to the fore as soon as you’re introduced to the game’s unique leveling system, which allots Shen experience points in three specific areas: Cop, Triad and Face. The experience points are, in turn, used to unlock new, unique abilities. Cop and Triad points often intermingle with one another as you complete the game’s primary missions, rewarding you for how careful you are with innocents and personal and private property (Cop) while simultaneously challenging you to brutalize your enemies with as much reckless abandon and gore as you can muster (Triad).
Face, on the other hand, has everything to do with how the citizenry of Hong Kong feel about you, making it not only the most abstract of the experience meters, but perhaps the most interesting as well. Doing all kinds of favors for the anonymous masses net you Face experience, so whether you’re assisting a merchant, chasing down some drunks or otherwise generally helping out the working class folk (and the occasional two-bit criminal) of Hong Kong, expect your Face meter to rise steadily.
I’m not sure why more people aren’t paying attention to Sleeping Dogs, but now that the game’s out, hopefully you won't make the same mistake. Sleeping Dogs did things that wowed me from the moment I started playing, and it never really stopped. A few finicky issues aside, Sleeping Dogs has proven itself worthy of joining the top class of open-worl...
May 13, 2020 · Published May 13, 2020. Sleeping Dogs is an extremely underrated open-world crime game that offers far more than a typical Grand Theft Auto clone. Grand Theft Auto clones can be a tough sell. No matter how good they are or what new experiences they bring to the table, they still tread in the shadow of GTA. While some games straight up copy the ...
Aug 17, 2021 · Sleeping Dogs Is A GTA-Clone Standout. The city and its inhabitants in Sleeping Dogs feel alive; pedestrians will even pull out umbrellas when it rains or react to Wei’s weapons, details not even found in GTA itself. There are also different types of side quests that make sense for the character and setting, such as police quests or ...
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